Places papagena Wants to Go

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

An elaborately decorated house sits on an otherwise quiet street.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

Visit a museum dedicated to the “the king of cheeses.”

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

Experience architect Le Corbusier's modernist design for living in the home he designed for himself.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

An odd museum dedicated to French fakes.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

Dishes are packed with flavor at one of the only Singaporean restaurants in Paris.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.